“I tried to arrest that Aisha Buhari when I was EFCC chairman” – Ribadu

The wife of Nigeria’s president, Aisha Buhari, was not the same person who was involved in the Halliburton scandal, Nuhu Ribadu has said.
Ribadu, who was chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), when the Halliburton controversy first blew into the open, told an online publication, Premium Times, that the Aisha Buhari mentioned in the case was an impostor who used Buhari’s name to further her devious goals.
“She is a different person and has lived in the U.S. for years. She is hardly in Nigeria. The EFCC was working with U.S. authorities on the investigations. One of my plans was to arrest her before I left the commission. Our suspicion then was that she was using the Buhari name for influence,” he said.
He said the commission was unable to arrest her while he was the chairman, but declined knowledge of what happened to the plans for her arrest after his departure. The former anti-graft boss said it was easy to establish her real identity if Nigerian authorities were interested in capturing her.
He noted that the impostor recently renewed her passport at the Nigerian embassy in Washington, US, and that her file should still be available.
The case involving Aisha Buhari became a topical issue once again following allegations by the governor of Ekiti, Ayo Fayose, that the person mentioned in the scandal was the president’s wife. The allegations by the governor led the president’s wife to lose her cool on Twitter late Tuesday, tweeting insults at Fayose